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Yano 🟪
@JasonYanowitz
co-founder @blockworks // host @theempirepod
New York Katılım Ocak 2013
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@JasonYanowitz @MikeIppolito_ what moved the needle the most?
cold calls?
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8 years ago today.
We started Blockworks in Dec 2017 but didn't quit our jobs to go full-time until May 1, 2018.
Found these pictures of our "standing desk" and daily schedule from that day.
@MikeIppolito_ and I would reach out to hundreds of people everyday with the hopes that we could convert just a few of them into event attendees.
Then we'd turn those event attendees into a community and monetize in various ways, or at least that was the goal.
The TAM for "institutional crypto" was tiny, maybe 1000 people max, but we were determined to win it.
What a journey, wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Public company CEOs are more bullish on crypto than the entire timeline
Empire 🟪@theempirepod
.@JasonYanowitz highlights what public company CEOs are saying about crypto on earnings calls Visa: “Visa is positioned as the hyper scaling bridge layer between stablecoins and real world solutions” SoFi: “The crypto super cycle will transform money movement" Mastercard: "We’re advancing agentic commerce with Mastercard Agent Pay and expanding our stablecoin solutions through our acquisition of BVNK” Robinhood: “The price moves up and down, but crypto as technology infrastructure is going to be big”
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Congrats to the energetic entrepreneurs and my friends @JasonYanowitz and @MikeIppolito_ of @Blockworks, which is doing so well! Was honored to serve on their board when I was at @50TFunds. 💪👇
Yano 🟪@JasonYanowitz
1/ Thrilled to announce our Series A extension at a $192M valuation. Crypto is at an inflection point. The bottleneck to growth is no longer just the technology. It's the trust gap between issuers and investors. Blockworks will solve that.
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Yano 🟪 retweetledi
The biggest difference between equity and tokens is trust.
Tokens are better structurally than equity in theory: they're programmable and trade on global rails.
The issue is the current iteration sucks and it's unclear what you're buying.
If Blockworks is successful, this will be a solved problem in a year or so.
Trillions.
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@JoshuaRosenthal @Blockworks @6ixthEvent @NarwhalNation Welcome aboard.
Ever since I heard you wax poetic about the Renaissance I knew you had to join us
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We didn't 'just' invest in @Blockworks via @6ixthEvent, but are a customer personally and via @NarwhalNation. This isn't 'just' a bet on great founders, team, product, or even 'crypto' data, but of data, visibility, intelligence, trust for all things on chain - aka everything in the future. Not 'just' data/pipes, but categories for trust in new capital formation. Go Team!
Yano 🟪@JasonYanowitz
1/ Thrilled to announce our Series A extension at a $192M valuation. Crypto is at an inflection point. The bottleneck to growth is no longer just the technology. It's the trust gap between issuers and investors. Blockworks will solve that.
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Partnering with @Blockworks was a no brainer.
Institutional interest in DeFi is at an all time high, and Blockworks is one of the key trusted sources for onchain data.
Continue to be impressed by @JasonYanowitz vision and the team's quality of execution
Yano 🟪@JasonYanowitz
Stoked to work with Veda. I met @sunandr_ when he came on Empire, very impressed by what they've built. Our new dashboard is the single best place to check @veda_labs data. Even includes specific vault tabs for Kraken, EtherFi, Lombard, Kinetiq, Plasma, and Whop.
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Stoked to work with Veda.
I met @sunandr_ when he came on Empire, very impressed by what they've built.
Our new dashboard is the single best place to check @veda_labs data.
Even includes specific vault tabs for Kraken, EtherFi, Lombard, Kinetiq, Plasma, and Whop.
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Yano 🟪 retweetledi
.@JasonYanowitz is probably one of the most underrated media/info entrepreneurs in the game
TBPN@tbpn
.@jasonyanowitz says there are two ways to build an information platform. "There's two ways to build an information platform. You can either start with the top of the stack or the bottom of the stack." "The top of the stack is soft information. Things like news, podcasts, events, and media—qualitative stuff." "The bottom of the stack is hard information, like data. Most people obviously start with the bottom of the stack because you can go raise venture, and it's sexy to build a data company. We started with the top of the stack because we thought it was way more interesting to own your audience and then go build the products." "We got to $25M in revenue, bootstrapped the business, and have been profitable since day one. It wasn't until 2022/2023 that we turned on the data engine and started building the bottom of the stack. Now we're the largest data company in crypto."
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@JasonYanowitz so as of now you don't have any marketing person?
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Media as a standalone business sucks.
But our events, podcasts, and newsletters are growth machines.
Tough for anyone to compete with our negative CAC.
It’s possible we hit $50M ARR without a single marketing person.
TBPN@tbpn
.@jasonyanowitz says there are two ways to build an information platform. "There's two ways to build an information platform. You can either start with the top of the stack or the bottom of the stack." "The top of the stack is soft information. Things like news, podcasts, events, and media—qualitative stuff." "The bottom of the stack is hard information, like data. Most people obviously start with the bottom of the stack because you can go raise venture, and it's sexy to build a data company. We started with the top of the stack because we thought it was way more interesting to own your audience and then go build the products." "We got to $25M in revenue, bootstrapped the business, and have been profitable since day one. It wasn't until 2022/2023 that we turned on the data engine and started building the bottom of the stack. Now we're the largest data company in crypto."
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Funds, companies, and protocols all have to rethink their strategy as we head into the next phase of the industry.
Easy mode is over.
Andy@andyyy
Our fund has done 60 checks in the last 3 years. Blockworks was a completely different thesis compared to most of the other deals we’ve done: > industry needs transparency & integrity baked into its core > tokens will look more like equity > institutional interest has new requirements for tokenomics > easy mode is over > someone will dominate data > we got the media side Congrats to Yano & Mike 🤙
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Yano 🟪 retweetledi
Two of our homies @SimkinStepan @JasonYanowitz
TBPN@tbpn
It’s Wednesday: - @vladtenev (Robinhood) - @andrew__reed (Sequoia) - @paraga (Parallel) - @JasonYanowitz (Blockworks) - @MariaSpiropulu (Caltech) - @SimkinStepan (Squads) - @kashgupta_ (Hightouch) - @DanMagy (Firestorm) - @GabeStengel (Rogo) - Even Rogers (True Anomaly) Join us
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The K-shaped recovery for crypto assets has begun
TBPN@tbpn
Blockworks Co-Founder @JasonYanowitz says there are two major shifts happening in crypto right now: "You have two dichotomies happening in crypto. One is that institutional crypto has never been better. Jamie Dimon used to call crypto a scam, and now, JP Morgan is pushing into tokenization and is going to start custodying crypto. So institutional markets are ripping, and the token markets suck." "In the crypto venture markets, pre-seed and seed were so hot. Back in the day, you could tell someone you're launching a token and, boom, you raised $10M like that. You guys talk about the K-shaped recovery in the economy. You have the K-shaped recovery in crypto too. You have the haves and have-nots, where most of the companies will be in the have-nots."
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